enactedness

To be sure, such an authorial view of constitutional origins is the sheerest banality, a view as simplistic as it is inevitable, a commonplace vernacular notion that cannot withstand critical examination. It is nevertheless with us for the duration, because perception of the Constitution’s enactedness figures crucially in the country’s acceptance of it as supreme law.

1998, Frank I[saac] Michelman, “Constitutional Authorship”, in Larry Alexander, editor, Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 64

There is a big, fuzzy, overlapping area of experiences and utterances that encompasses both “virtual” and “real” realities. In this space the player and hir character are intertwined in unexpected ways that allow players to suspend their disbelief or that can make the player realize the fundamental enactedness of it all.

2002, Frank Schaap, “Descriptions”, in The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, →ISBN, chapter 3 (In the Sphere), page 62